手前
Japanese
Etymology 1
Kanji in this term | |
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手 | 前 |
て Grade: 1 |
まえ Grade: 2 |
kun'yomi |
Compound of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese elements 手 (te, “hand”) + 前 (mae, “front”), originally meaning “that which is just in front of one's hand”.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
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Noun
- position that is just in front or before; in the nearer position
- あの店は交差点の手前にある。
- Ano mise wa kōsaten no temae ni aru.
- That store is just in front of / just before the intersection.
- あの店は交差点の手前にある。
Pronoun
手前 or 手前 • (temae or pronoun) ←てまへ (temafe)?[[Category:Japanese Lua error in Module:debug at line 160: Invalid part of speech.
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- (vulgar, male) you, you son of a bitch
Usage notes
More commonly pronounced as and written in hiragana as てめえ (temē).
Antonyms
- (distant): 奥 (oku)
Etymology 2
Kanji in this term | |
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手 | 前 |
て Grade: 1 |
まえ > めえ Grade: 2 |
kun'yomi |
Alteration of temae. The vowel shift emphasizes the confrontational sense of the term.[2][3] Compare おめえ (omē, from お前 (omae)), ねえ (nē, from ない), やべえ (yabē, from やばい (yabai)).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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Pronoun
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|てめえ]]
- (vulgar, male) you, you son of a bitch
- 手前は殺してやる!
- Temē wa koroshite yaru!
- I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch!
- 手前は殺してやる!
Usage notes
This is one of the ruder, more confrontational Japanese terms for you. Rough, often used in anger. Often pronounced and written as てめえ (temē).
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 2000, Jonathan Bunt, Gillian Hall, The Oxford Starter Japanese Dictionary, First Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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